Biography
From Wikipedia Edmund Breese (June 18, 1871 – April 6, 1936) was an American stage and film actor of the silent era. Long on the stage with a varied Broadway career before entering movies he appeared with James O'Neill in The Count of Monte Cristo (1893), The Lion and the Mouse (1906) with Richard Bennett, The Third Degree (1909) with Helen Ware, The Master Mind (1913) with Elliott Dexter, the popular World War I era play Why Marry? (1917) with Estelle Winwood & Nat C. Goodwin and So This Is London (1922) with Donald Gallaher. He appeared in 129 films between 1914 and 1935. He is best remembered as the advice-giving German businessman at the beginning of the war film All Quiet on the Western Front. His final role was on stage in Night of January 16th from September 1935 to April 1936. Just before the play ended its run, Breese developed peritonitis, which he died from on April 6, 1936.
Acted in 99
1930s
- 1934
Lost in the Stratosphere
Col. Brooks
Return of the Terror
Editor
Come On, Marines!
General Cabot
Dancing Man
J.C. Trevor
Beloved
Maj. Tarrant
- 1933
Above the Clouds
Crusty
Female
Board Member (Uncredited)
Only Yesterday
Investor (Uncredited)
Ladies Must Love
Thomas Van Dyne
A Man of Sentiment
John Russell Sr.
Laughing at Life
Cabinet Officer
Fighting With Kit Carson
Matt Fargo
International House
Doctor Wong
On Your Guard
Prison Warden
The Billion Dollar Scandal
Mr. Haddock
- 1932
The Match King
Olaf Christofsen
Women Won't Tell
Attorney for the Defense
The Golden West
Sam Lynch
The Cabin in the Cotton
Holmes Scott
Drifting Souls
Brad Martin
The Hurricane Express
The Secretary's Father
Alias Mary Smith
Mr. Hayes
As You Desire Me
Friar
Young Bride
Mr. C. B. Chadwick the Broker
Police Court
Judge Robert Webster
The Reckoning
Doc
Cross-Examination
Dwight Simpson
The Hatchet Man
Yu Chang
- 1931
Morals for Women
Mr. Hutson
The Public Defender
Frank Wells
Defenders of the Law
Capt. Bill Houston
The Good Bad Girl
J.P. Henderson
Young Sinners
Trent
The She-Wolf
Movie
Millie
Defense Attorney
- 1930
Chiselers of Hollywood
Movie
Tol'able David
Hunter Kinemon
Kismet
Jawan
Playboy of Paris
General de Karodek
Bright Lights
Franklin Harris
Top Speed
Spencer Colgate
The Sea Bat
Maddocks
Rough Waters
Captain Thomas
The Czar of Broadway
Movie
Hold Everything
Pop O'Keefe
1920s
- 1929
In the Headlines
Eddy
The Hottentot
Ollie
Girl Overboard
Jim Keefe
Sonny Boy
Thorpe
Girls Gone Wild
Judge Elliott
Fancy Baggage
John Hardin
- 1928
Conquest
William Holden
On Trial
Judge
The Haunted House
Uncle Herbert
The Wright Idea
Mr. Filbert
The Perfect Crime
Wilmot
Burning Daylight
John Dossett
Finders Keepers
Hastings
- 1927
Home Made
Mr. Tilford
Back to Liberty
Tom Devon
Paradise for Two
Uncle Howard
- 1926
Stepping Along
Prince Ferdinand Darowitsky
The Brown Derby
John J. Caldwell
- 1925
Womanhandled
Uncle Lester
The Live Wire
Sawdust Sam
- 1924
Those Who Judge
Henry Dawson
The Speed Spook
Chuck Brady
The Sixth Commandment
Col. Saunders
Damaged Hearts
Innkeeper
- 1923
Three O'Clock in the Morning
Mr. Winthrop
The Fair Cheat
Morgan Van Dam
Bright Lights of Broadway
Reverend Graham Drake
Jacqueline, or Blazing Barriers
Edmund MacDonald
Luck
Alan Crosby
- 1922
The Curse of Drink
John Rand
Sure-Fire Flint
Johnny Jetts
Beyond the Rainbow
Insp. Richardson
- 1921
Burn 'Em Up Barnes
King Cole
- 1920
A Common Level
Matthew Ryan
Chains of Evidence
Judge Frank Sturgis
His Temporary Wife
Judge Laton
1910s
- 1919
Someone Must Pay
Charles Bryant
- 1918
The Master Crook
Movie
- 1916
The Weakness of Strength
Daniel Gaynor
The Spell of the Yukon
Jim Carson
The Lure of Heart's Desire
Jim Carew
- 1915
The Song of the Wage Slave
Movie
- 1914
The Master Mind
Richard Allen
Wrote 1
1920s
- 1921
A Man's Home
Theatre Play